Happy Birthday PKR Poker!

August 22 - PKR.com, the leading online poker room site, is celebrating a very impressive milestone.  The award winning gaming entity burst onto the scene in 2006, at the peak of the online poker industry, and many believed that there wasn't place for another site in an industry already so crowded.

However, PKR Poker proved its worth - and then some - and is celebrating five fantastic years in the industry this week.

PKR changed the way players played poker, thanks to its innovative proprietary 3D software which took the poker world by storm.

The poker room has been so successful that it has even surprised its own managers and developers who could not have dreamed that the site would reach such incredible heights five years ago.

So quickly has this group grown that it was recognized by the Sunday Times as the fastest growing technology company in the United Kingdom, on the release of the newspaper's 2010 Tech Track 100 list last year.

"It's been both a challenging and rewarding experience seeing the company go from launch to the position we are in now," said Simon Prodger, the Marketing Director of PKR. "I think we’ve made a great product and are lucky enough to have gathered a fantastically loyal and passionate customer base. We never stop looking forward at PKR, and really, this is just the beginning. There is so much more to come."

Celebrating the Facts

Some of the data released by PKR Poker showed just far it has come in five years.

• Between January and August 2011, PKR had received 18.454 million visits (10.5 million of which are unique visitors).
• Nearly 4.5 million members have registered with the online poker site, depositing a whopping $1 billion in wagers.
• To date, the site has seen nearly 65,000,000 real money sit and go tournaments played, with 20.6 million multi table tourneys played.
• Nearly 90% of PKR players are men, and 11% (or 487,827 players) are women.
• Members come from 238 different countries.
• The UK makes up 18.6%, France 14.2%, The Netherlands 8.1%, Germany 6.3% and Canada 5% of all players.